Puck print (1992) by Edna Hibel (1917 - 2014)

 

Highlights

 

• Professionally framed in ornate gold metallic painted wood and triple matted (Light Brown, Olive Green, and Light Green) by Aaron Brothers
• Hand Signed lower right (obscured by mat)
• Numbered 88 of 361 (Lower Left)
• Out of a total edition of 361
• Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA) on back of frame
• Includes hanging hardware and is ready to hang

 

Details

 

• Image Size: 15 1/2 x 8 inches
• Paper Size: 20 x 12 1/2 inches
• Frame Size: 25 x 17 x 1 inches
• Medium: Arches Paper
• Edition: Limited Edition of 361
• Provenance: Garnett Valley, PA Auction

 

Comments

 

• Puck is a serigraph on arches paper in 17 colors by Edna Hibel numbered 88 of 361 in one section of a Limited Edition produced in 1992 in Tel Aviv, Israel
• The print is hand signed lower right (obscured by mat) with Certificate of Authenticity from Edna Hibel on the back
• The artwork depicts a person playing the flute in a floral setting wearing an orange hat and clothes in hues of Green, Blue, Red and Orange

 

Condition (Please see grading guide below)

 

• (I) Overall: Excellent
• (II) Content: Excellent
• (III) Frame: Very Good (a few scuffs, scratches, dings, chips and dents on metal frame; Dust cover intact with a few punctures; hanging hardware attached; Certificate of Authenticity on back)

 

Artist Bio

 

Born in 1917, Miss Hibel grew up in the Boston area. She was educated at Brookline High School where she met her future husband, Theodore Plotkin to whom she was married for 72 years.  She spent many summers at the shore in Hull, Massachusetts and in Maine studying watercolor painting. She began painting at the age of 9 in elementary school. 

Edna Hibel was educated at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, from 1935-39, and was a special graduate student later. In 1942, she was honored with the Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship to Mexico. At the age of 23, she was the youngest artist at the time to have a painting purchased by a major American art museum.  The Boston Museum of Art purchased ” Orange Lady” which Edna Hibel had created during her time in Mexico. The painting is now with the Lafayette Art Foundation and Museum in Louisiana, along with ” Hello Dolly”, a portrait of Ginger Rogers.

Edna began “pulling” stone lithographs in 1966 in Boston and then moved to work in a fourth generation ‘atelier” in Zurich in 1970 and she still works in Switzerland. Lithography is a drawing medium and it is especially suited to her draftsmanship and exquisite control over “the line.” She innovated in creating works with up to 32 stones (or colors) on paper, silk, wood veneer and encouraged her porcelain manufacturers to allow her to create color separations with stone lithography which were transferred in a “secret” complicated process onto Bavarian hard paste porcelain. These works are now called lithographs on porcelain.

Until the age of 93, Edna painted each day in her studio at home beginning early in the morning and hand enhanced her original stone lithographs, serigraphs and giclee with pastels, oil paint, gold leaf, pencil, ink, conte crayon and charcoal.

 

References

 

Edna Hibel Studio

 

Grading Guide

 

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Scale:

• Excellent: No damage or issues barely perceptible from close viewing distance and bright lighting conditions
• Very Good: Issues visible from close viewing distance and normal lighting conditions
• Good: Issues visible from normal viewing distance and lighting conditions but do NOT significantly detract from the overall look of the work
• Fair: Issues that are immediately apparent from normal viewing distance and lighting conditions AND significantly detract from the overall look of the work
• Poor: Severe condition issues that require repair and some may be beyond repair

 

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